British Columbia targeting disgruntled American doctors and nurses. Skiers should be interested!
B.C. looks to attract U.S. doctors and nurses with pitch to fast-track credentials and planned recruitment campaign.
British Columbia is hoping to attract doctors and nurses from the United States with its plans to fast-track the recognition of their credentials and launch a recruitment campaign.
The province announced in a statement Tuesday that it is working with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. on a process to enable physicians who are trained in the U.S., and who hold certification from the American Board of Medical Specialties, to become fully licensed without the need for further assessment or training.
B.C. said it will remove barriers faced by U.S. doctors who wish to be licensed and practise medicine in the province, and that its plans follow similar changes recently adopted by Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The province expects changes to be implemented in a few months after consultations.
My Irish project status report: I now have 4 of the 7 vital records needed for citizenship. I’ve put off the 3 most difficult for last, hoping that I’d find a relative that already had a copy. I’ll need to use PTO for it. Getting the records will apparently require a trip to the Chicago county clerk’s office and, from what I’ve been told, hoping that whoever I talk to there likes me and is sympathetic to my story, as it appears that the only people with a legal right to those records are all dead. Apparently in general Chicago is a stickler when it comes to handing out vital records and you need to get lucky. Or so I’ve been told.
I wonder if the executors/administrators of the estates of the latest-generation folks with the legal rights to request such records could put in a request for you, assuming they still have official copies of their Letters Testamentary.
Good idea. Thanks. That should get me at least one of the remaining 3.
I also just ran into a page that seemed to say that if I had a letter from the Irish Embassy saying that I need certified copies for citizenship, they could get me what I need. I’ll verify that first, then contact the embassy.
The £100k tax trap in the UK has now reached the point where it is actively harming the productivity of the country.
You now have to make at least £150k if you are to avoid the trap.
This is causing large-scale ecomomic behavior changes at the margin (higher earners dropping hours, reducing taxable income via pension or salary sacrifice, retiring early, or just flat out leaving the country)
I am very surprised Labour is going through with this.
They must have got the message that without some serious pruning (public sector is very unproductive in the UK) they had no real hope of growing the economy. The civil service has gotten very bloated since Covid.
Still, I expect lots of strikes coming up in the UK.
I expect curtailment of the growth of our civil service after the upcoming federal election regardless of whether the Tories or Liberals form the government. Carney could well have been the leader of the old Progressive Conservative Party rather than the Liberal leader.
We’ve been shedding people for awhile, but it sounds like the CRA is getting the worst of it. They grew a lot during Covid.
I think I’ll be losing a couple of coworkers in my group March 31st when their contracts run out. Hiring people is a nightmare right now where everything has to get sign-off from the ADM.
